productivity

How mindfulness got stripped from its Buddhist roots and sold back as a productivity hack for corporate America.

The harder you chase something, the more it evades you. Alan Watts' backwards law and the paradox of effortless action.

The cult of productivity is a trap. You cannot life-hack your way to meaning. A critique of optimization culture.

You can't grind your way into flow. That's the whole point. Why trying to manufacture flow defeats the purpose.

Clock-discipline is a historical invention, not a natural law. The tyranny of the schedule costs us more than we realize.

The empirical case for intentional technology usewhat peer-reviewed studies support, what's oversimplified, and what remains genuinely uncertain.